Gavin Wright

For the violinist, see Gavyn Wright.

Gavin Wright is an economic historian and the William Robertson Professor of American economic history at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University and has taught at that institution, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, and Oxford University.

Wright has published nine books and dozens of scholarly articles. Most of his research has focused on the economics of U.S. Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.

Selected publications

• Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2013.
• The Japanese Economy in Retrospect. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2010 (co-ed).
• The Mosaic of Economic Growth. Stanford U. Press, 1996 (co-ed). ISBN 0-804-72604-3.
• The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton, 1978. ISBN 0-393-09038-8.
• Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War. New York: Basic Books, 1986. ISBN 0-8071-2098-7.
• Slavery and American Economic Development. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-8071-3183-0.
• Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-674-04933-8.
• Technique, Spirit and Form in the Making of Modern Economies. Bingley, England: JAI Press, 1984 (c-ed).
• Reconing withy Slavery. Oxford, England: Oxford U. Press, 1976 (co-ed).

External links

• Stanford faculty bio
• SIEPR bio